Matriarchy: They All Want the School Hunk for Themselves

This is a world where women hold all the power, while men depend on them to survive.

For men at the bottom, the only way to get by is to be meek, obedient, and devoted to one woman.

Chu Ran transmigrates into this world as the last surviving heir of a noble family that was wiped out, reduced to a trophy for others to trample at an elite academy.

Cornered, he rejects the degrading way men are expected to live in this world.

Armed with a modern understanding of romance, he carves out a path of counter-hunting through a female-dominated hierarchy where everyone is powerful.

With melancholy eyes and a graceful figure, he knows how to act weak and endure in silence, delivering the most piercing words with the most innocent gaze.

A deliberately fabricated scandal. A trial watched by the entire school.

He neither argues nor begs for mercy. With nothing but a perfectly timed show of hurt and sacrifice, he turns certain death into victory.

The aloof student council president softens and yields to him, while the heiress of a wealthy family casts aside her prejudice for his sake.

Everyone is captivated by his seeming purity and kindness, shielding him beneath their wings and treating him like a treasure.

No one knows that beneath that fragile, harmless exterior lies a calculating heart, decisive and ruthless.

Every tender gesture is a ploy. Every show of affection makes them pawns.

He uses the favor of the most powerful elite to climb step by step into the heart of power, all so he can overturn the overwhelming forces that destroyed his family.

The world calls him soft as a boneless thing, someone to be pitied and cherished.

Only Chu Ran knows the truth:

I am no bird in a cage. I am the one moving the pieces.